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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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While the researcher had just completed his academic training to become a psychiatrist, he received no education at all on the withdrawal issues facing him, as well as more than 1 in 6 patients prescribed antidepressants. SSRI antidepressants and other blockbuster psychiatric drugs were released in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’

Mad in America

My therapy training has played a part; I am now able to step into other peoples frames of reference. While I trained to become a therapist, I paid my bills by working as a debt advisor for the debt charity StepChange. Nowadays I find it most helpful to look at things in terms of power dynamics and vested interests. Davies, 2013, p.30)

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Irish Psychiatry Says Chemical Imbalance Is a Figure of Speech—So, What Now?

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Published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), 30+ prominent figures called on the UK government to acknowledge the evidence that antidepressants are no better than placebos for most patients and to increase funding of social and psychological interventions while decreasing drug prescriptions.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 1)

Mad in America

For example, while seeking treatment for my own back pain/disability problem, including an attempt to get a waiver from my insurance company policy of mandatory steroid injections before authorization for back surgery, my experiences have strengthened my belief that too much of healthcare is governed by clinical belief rather than science.

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The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools

Mad in America

If only he could apply himself to his study of history and government he would be well qualified for the job (But who are we kidding? His undergrad is in Biology, he has a master’s in education and was trained as a lawyer. It is for these reasons that we train them to be competent in these areas. Mr. Blue is highly educated.

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3 Mistakes that Force Employees to Leave

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I once worked at an organization, and my department worked on connecting pharmaceutical companies with government officials. The organization offered great benefits, invested a lot in corporate training, and provided us with many financial bonuses. You Spread Them Thin. Yet, my department had a very high turnover.

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Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth

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Then we got together with people from other parts of the UK and what brought us together initially was the Labour Government’s decision to review the Mental Health Act. The pharmaceutical industry wanted to put a line between benzodiazepines and their new range of drugs. They marketed this new range of drugs as SSRIs.